River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-09-22

curve just outside the city limits of Du-
buque, Iowa, at six O'Clock Monday morn
ing There was a dense fog and neither
train saw the other until they crushed.
FIVE persons were instantly Killed, includ-
ing the engineers and hremen of each train,
and ten injured. Only three of the injured
were passengers The trains ran at
speed of about . miles an hour.
Aparty of young men were spending
sometime in saloon at New York Mills,
Mimi. and as the evening hours wore on
Mike O'Dea, aged 81, a section foreman on
the Northern Pacific, began jumping off the
box stove. Being somewhat intoxicated he
slipped, striking on his forehead and break
ing his neck. He leaves a sister and
widowed mother who were dependent upon
him. The mother was completely crazed on
learning of his death.
Jacob Kuhn was found murdered
in house near the State Fair grounds at
Hamlin, Mimi, where he slept, the house
being otherwise unoccupied. A day or
two before the murder an unknown had
called upon Kuhn for assistance and was
known to have occupied the house with
him. He is supposed to have committed
the murder. Kuhn's watch and best suit
OF clothes, and his money, not more than
s. or $40 were taken.
The newly elected directors of the
Northern Pacific II. r., organized by elect
ing the following officers: President, Robert
Harris, of New York; vice president and
general manager, Thomas f. Cakes, of ST.
Paul. secretary, Samuel Wilkeson, New
York; treasurer, Robert l.. Belknap, New
York general auditor j. A. Barker, st.
Paul: land commissioner, Charles b. Lam
born; general counsel, George Gray, New
York.
Frank c. McGhee, special agent
United States bureau of labor, has visited
Brookings. Oak, in the interest of the gov
eminent, looking up the statistics as to di-
vorce matters His Investigations show
that Brookings county has furnished its
! quota, thirty casts appearing on the records.
Many of them We're cases where the
parties came there and lived the time re-
quired by law, and then returned to the
| East
Mai. j. NJ. Washburn died at
Mitchell, Oak, of diabetes, aged SO years.
He leaves wife and one son. Maj. Wash
bnrn hn %ent to akota eighteen years ago
| agency, and wa, afterward receiver in the
United States and office for two terms.
| He located first 1t Vermillion then removed
to Sioux Falls, and later to Mitchell. He
was prominent Republican.
Ole Strsndberg, age IL, a student in
the artisans training school at the State
University, Minneapolis Mimi, was killed
/ on the 18th, while crossing the tracks of the
| Manitoba r. r.. which run through the
campus. He came upon the tracks as
trains were coming from either direction
and being confused with alarm was struck
down by one of them, his neck, right arm
and right leg being broken.
At Wahpeton, OAK, the private
boarding house of Mrs. Wilson was visited
by sneak thieves. Two rooms where the
doors were unlocked were entered aud a
valuable gold watch and chain belonging
to Z, K. Walfe, few dollars and pair
OF shoes belonging to w. g; Whitcomb stolen
| A pocketbook of q. Il. Walfes containing
checks of nearly four hundred dollars was
dropped ON the stairs
The annual reunion of the 2lst
Iowa infantry was held at Manchester, A
big crowd wcs in attendance from all over
Iowa ami neighboring states. Nearly three
hundred old members of the regiment an
swered .oll call Capt Morey was promi
nent In conducting arrangements. The
| exercises of the day were concluded by a
banquet prepared by the Women's Relief
Corps of Manchester.
At Monango, Oak, at 4 o'clock in
the afternoon Mrs. Frank Dean undertook
TO till her gasoline stove. She spilled the
| fluid on her clothing and fire caught from
the burners. She was enveloped in flames
her breast burned to a blister and her. bach
charred. The excitement caused her to be
delivered of still-bornchild before morning
A two-year old child was also badly burned
The house and contents are a complete loss
The Montana legislature adjourned
after a session of fourteen days Not
much work of Importance was accomplished
aside from the passage OF bill creating
Cascade county. The repeal of the bounty
bill was lost by a close vote, but the law
was finally so amended that each county
may pay premiums on prairie dogs and
| squirrel hides, thus relieving the territory
at large of considerable expense.
The funeral of j. NJ. Washburn al
Mitchell, Oak, under Masonic auspices
was the largest ever held in South Dakota
Masonic delegations were present from
| Sioux Falls, Alexandria, Plankinton, White
aRa 6 Ssh Roh ns nby eT9
held in the rink in the presence of 200 PEG
| pie The procession was three-quarters OF
| a mile in length
w. +. Redmon of Prescott, Mimi,
while out chicken hunting was wounded in
the right side by the accidental discharge
of gun. He was sitting in the buggy with
the gun beside him, when the contents were
| discharged in some unaCcountable manner
The charge passing through his body just
above the hip bone, making a painful but
not fatal wound.
A serious accident occurred at the
Aberdeen, OAK, races. As the horses
cd ind rfa
horse bolted. The horse following struck
man who stepped on the track, knocking
| him senseless, The horse fell, rolling on
the driver, dislocating his shoulder and in
fiicting other injuries thought to be fatal.
The Territorial w. C. T. u. of Dakota,
at its session at Huron elected Mrs Graham
of jamestown and Mrs. ID. S. McCarlin OF
Huron delegates to the national convention,
which meets in Nashville next month. The
Prohibition alliance have put Mrs Wood
bridge, secretary of the National w. G. T.
u, into the field to lecture for a month.
At Austin, Mimi, Samuel Pinkham,
aged fifty-Gve years, died suddenly in a
spasm. He was ill but a few moments,
having been around as usual in the morn
ing. There are suspicious that he accident
ly took an overdose of morphine, as he has
been using good deal of late. He was a
member OF the Il. A X.
A very serious fire at Lake Crystal,
Mimi, destroyed the best business square of
the town extending from the Omaha r. r.,
to the Central Hotel, the loss being fully
100000, with quite light insurance. There
are said to be suspicious circumstances at
tending the breaking out of the fire, which
was at /, a. m.
The Eau Claire (Wis.) Lumber Co.,
has sold its pine lands, mills and logging in
terests of the value of S2,0O0OOO, to the
Mississippi River Logging CO., of which
Frederick Weyerhauser of Chippewa Falls,
is President. The Eau Claire Company
still retains interest and property valued at
81, 10000.
George Walter James, aged fifty
eight, eldest son of the late G. p r. James,
the novelist, died at his home at Eau Claire,
Wis He had been sinking for some time
under paralytic stroke. His wife and two
sons, City Attorney James, of Eau Claire,
and Frederick James, of Minneapolis sur
vive him.
The alumni of Ann Arbor university
residing in Minneapolis, Mimi, rendered
Judge Cooley, of the Interstate Commerce
commission, a reception and banquet at
the West hotel. Plates We're laid for sixty,
and numt err of informal responses to